Perla, Jack.
Contents: Enormous changes -- The world -- Swimming upstream -- Mighty erudite -- The unknowing -- Memorial Day -- Spaghetti western -- House of straw -- Falling -- Things I love -- 11 lilacs -- We would fall -- Secret agent man -- The blue lights.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Origin Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PERContents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PROSummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATJacob, Merle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oryx Press 2000
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1 available in Reference Desk, Call number: RDK 808.83 JACSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: When Rodney was a teenager his mother just dropped him off at the home of Connie Stevens and left him. Eventually he landed his first show-business job as a double for Davey Jones on "The Monkeys". Rodney ended up using his skills as a consummate hanger-on and his genuine enthusiasm for rock & roll to become a central figure in the L.A. music scene and is lauded for his good taste and good...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAYSummary: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: Pearl S. Buck's timeless masterpiece, the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of a farmer's journey through China in the 1920s. The Good Earth is Buck's classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple's fortunes improve over the years: They are blessed with sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Open Road Media 2012
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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: Restaurant owner Madam Liang, having sent her three daughters to America to be educated and to escape the coming Communist revolution in China, refuses herself to flee to safety even though her decision could end her life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Various Artists
Contents: It's my life / No Doubt -- Toxic / Britney Spears -- Stand up / Ludacris feat. Shawnna -- Holidae in / Chingy feat. Ludacris and Snoop Dogg -- Gangsta nation / Westside Connection feat. Nate Dogg -- Bounce / Sarah Connor -- Shut up / Black Eyed Peas -- Gigolo / Nick Cannon feat. R. Kelly -- Me, myself and I / Beyoncé -- Shorty doowop / Baby Bash feat. Perla Cruz & Russell Lee -- I don't want...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: An American diplomat's career in China.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Day Co. 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BUCSummary: The first issues of nine of comics' most compelling new titles are collected in this shelf-busting compendium. Discover new horror, drama, fantasy, and science fiction by some of comics' top talent-- writers and artists who will draw readers into their worlds and hook them in a single issue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SNYBuck, Pearl S
Summary: A slave bride of a Chinese laborer devotes herself to her husband's family, but when civil war in China brings wealth to the family, her happiness is endangered as her husband brings home a second wife. "This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: A recently discovered novel follows the gifted Randolph Colfax from birth to his early twenties as he searches for purpose and meaning in New York, England, Paris, and on his mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ingram Pub Services 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: Wang Lang, a simple peasant farmer, takes as a wife a battered slave girl who becomes an indomitable, loyal woman. Working the land together, they prosper and increase their holdings, yet Wang eventually betrays his family and neglects the earth he had worshipped.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1958
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Buck 1958Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: J. Day Co. 1956
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The John Day company 1946
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Place a hold to request this item.Williams, Hank
Contents: You've been lonesome, too (Alan Jackson) -- The love that faded (Bob Dylan) -- How many times have you broken my heart? (Norah Jones) -- You know that I know (Jack White) -- I'm so happy I found you (Lucinda Williams) -- I hope you shed a million tears (Vince Gill and Rodney Crowell) -- You're through fooling me (Patty Loveless) -- You'll never again be mine (Levon Helm) -- Blue is my heart...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY LOSNelson, Willie
Summary: On April 29 and 30 of this year, a variety of artists spanning genres and generations came together with Willie Nelson to celebrate the legend's 90th birthday for a star-studded, once-in-a-lifetime event at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. This two CD+Blu-ray set captures the highlights of this amazing night, including 39 performances across the two CDs and the same songs captured in HD on...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc one. Can the circle be unbroken (bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Barbara Allen (Bradley Kincaid) -- I'll fly away (James and Martha Carson) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- Blue yodel number 9 (standin' on the corner) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Wildwood flower...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC COUSummary: Years after he fought his way out of prison, Ray Breslin must return to the hell he once escaped from to save his friend from the prison's brutal human battleground, known as Hades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018